Michael Getler addresses reader criticism of Wilbank...

[Halliburton]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800874.html

[DemonFighterLives]

1. Oh, it was just a Washington Sketch

:eyes:
I'm so glad that there is a big difference between a column, an article and an opinion.

[Supersedeas]

2. ah, the word is sharper than it should have been...NeoCon Journalism speak

[alcuno]

3. Is that SOP?

Having reporters slip back and forth between "columnist" and "reporter?" Seems odd.

[quaoar]

4. Milbank is apparently mad

Here's Milbank's view: "While you have been within your rights as ombudsman over the past five years to attempt to excise any trace of colorful or provocative writing from the Post, you are out of bounds in asserting that a columnist cannot identify as 'wingnuts' a group whose followers have long been harassing this and other reporters and their families with hateful, obscene and sometimes anti-Semitic speech."

[Bunny]

5. Anti-Semitic? Is he Jewish?

I had no idea what his religious affiliation is. I just thought he was an asshole. :shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

6. What or who is he referring to?

"you are out of bounds in asserting that a columnist cannot identify as 'wingnuts' a group whose followers have long been harassing this and other reporters and their families with hateful, obscene and sometimes anti-Semitic speech."

[quaoar]

7. That is his response to the ombudsman

It is quoted in the story linked to in the original post.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. No, I mean, who are the wingnuts exactly?

Right, Left? Who are the anti-semitic journo harassers?

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Strange letter

The Ombudsman goes on and on about the ving nut thing and barely a mention of the rotten sketch thingy. I don't see what kind of stupid sketch he was making. It was biased, never amounted to reporting on anything and was supposed to be a joke for freepers, I guess. :puffpiece:

[Spazito]

9. Wow, this sure is proof he has a bias against those on the left

It seems to me anyone who would write the piece of garbage he did on the Conyer's hearing should have a thicker skin. Obviously, by this remark, he can dish it out but not take it.

[quaoar]

10. Yes, if you are going to be a columnist

You can't take your hate mail too seriously or you won't last very long. All columnists and most reporters get hate mail.

If Milbank doesn't want to run with the big dogs, he should stay on the porch.

[Pepperbelly]

11. Dana, are you mad?

Then you should go fuck yourself because I, for one, do not give a drizzly shit whether you are mad or not. In fact, due to your perverse point of view, if you are not enraged by criticism, I would be disappointed.

Oh, in case you missed it Millbank, fuck yourself.